Encounters with Aliens on this Day

August 13

1909 - At 11:00 p.m. a top-shaped object was observed through a night glass as it moved in a northerly direction over Glen Innes, New South Wales, Australia.
Its lower portion was lighted while the upper portion was dark,
and as the body of the object revolved a light kept turning on to the
terrain beneath. (Source: Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 8, citing Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 31).

1917
- A luminous globe was seen spinning through the clouds by over 18,000
witnesses who had assembled at Fatima, in the Cova da Iria, Portugal to
see another monthly apparition of the "Lady in Blue", thought to be the
Virgin Mary by Roman Catholic faithful. The sky turned rainbow colors
including pink, yellow, and blue. There was a perceived lowering of the
temperature, and angel hair residue. (Source: Jacques Vallee, The Invisible College, p. 145).

1942 - Sixty-eight UFOs were seen over the Capitol in Washington, D.C. on this night around 11:00 p.m. Photographs were taken, and a big CAA investigation followed. (Source: Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 126).

1947 - Mr. A. C. Urie and his two sons were fishing in the Snake
River Canyon near Twin Falls, Idaho at about one p.m. when they saw
a sky blue, seven-meter wide inverted plate-shaped flying object 100
meters away and 25 meters above the ground. Treetops under it were
spinning wildly, although the object itself did not appear to spin. It
made a swishing sound. There was a red flame visible on one side of the
top. According to the FBI investigative report of this case, at about 1:00
p.m. Mr. Urie "sent his boys to the (Salmon) river to get some rope from
his boat. When he thought they were overdue he went outside to his tool
shed to look for them. He noticed them about 300 feet away looking in the
sky and he glanced up to see what he called the flying disc. This strange
object was flying at high speed along the canyon which is about 400 feet
deep and 1,200 feet across at that point. It was about seventy-five feet
above the floor of the canyon (and so more than 300 feet below the edge of
the canyon) and moving up and down as it flew. It seemed to be following
the contours of the hilly ground beneath it. Urie, who said he was at
about the same level as the UFO, so that he had a side view, estimated it
was about twenty feet long, ten feet wide and ten feet high, with what
appeared to be exhaust ports on the sides. It was almost hat shaped with a
flat bottom and a dome on top.

Close Encounter at Snake River Canyon near Twin Falls,
Idaho - 1947

Its pale blue color made Urie think that it would be very difficult to
see against the sky, although he had no trouble seeing it silhouetted
against the opposite wall of the canyon. On each side there was a tubular
shaped fiery glow, like some sort of exhaust. He said that when it went
over trees they didn't sway back and forth, but rather the treetops
twisted around, which suggests that the air under the object was being
swirled into a vortex. He and his sons had an excellent view of the object
for a few seconds before it disappeared over the trees about a mile away.
He thought it was going 1,000 miles an hour. (Sources: NICAP UFO
Investigator, February 1978, p. 4; Jacques Vallee, Passport to
Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 192).

1952 - While flying over Tokyo, Japan at 9:45 p.m. USAF
Marine Corps pilot Major D. McGough sighted an orange light that flew a
left orbit at 8,000' and 230 mph. It then spiraled down to no more than
1,500 feet altitude, remained stationary for 2-3 minutes more, and went
out. An attempted interception was unsuccessful. (Source: Don Berliner,
Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Kevin Randle, Invasion
Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 278).

1956 - At Bentwaters RAF Base in Suffolk, England
radar returns at 9:20 p.m. showed a large unidentified craft
moving in excess of 4,000 mph. The crew of a C-47 confirmed a visual
sighting of a blur of light moving at high speeds. Both air and ground
radars confirm fantastic maneuvers were performed. (Sources: James E.
McDonald, FSR, March 1970, p. 10; John W. Spencer, WorldAtlas of UFOs, p. 86; Michael D. Hall, UFOs: A Century of Sightings, p. 242; Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 12).

1959 - Two women at a lake near Ogden Dunes, Indiana
saw a glowing domed disc at six o'clock in the morning. The object was
20 meters in diameter, and hovered and maneuvered 15 meters over the
lake for two minutes. (Sources: Gary (IN) Post-Tribune, August 14, 1959; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: August-September, p. 29).

1959 - At around 4:00 p.m. a pilot flying a Cessna 170 between
Hobbs and Albuquerque, New Mexico encountered three round, gray
UFOs that circled his aircraft just southeast of Corona, New Mexico
and caused his compass to spin. Compass deviation. The pilot reported the
incident and was later interrogated by the U.S. Air Force.(Sources: NICAP
UFO Investigator, April 1965, p. 5; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA
Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 23).

1959 - At 9:30 p.m. six woman travelling by car through a rural
area near Freeport, Texas saw a bright UFO pass low in front of
their car, causing the car's engine and headlights to die. The UFO landed
in a wooded area. Dense underbrush prevented approaching landing site.
(Sources: APRO Bulletin, September 1959; Richard Hall, The UFO
Evidence (Volume I), p. 75; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A
Century of Landings, case 277).

Corning, California Close Encounter August 13, 1960

1960 - At 11:50 p.m. a red colored, cigar-shaped UFO in Tehama
county, California twice approached a police car at close range.
Police officers Scott and Carson were 18 miles north of Red Bluff and east
of Corning, California on Hoag Road when they first encountered the
UFO. It had red lights at both ends, and one of the red lights swept the
ground like a searchlight. They experienced heavy static on their police
radio, and the UFO swerved to avoid their spotlight. There were at least
two other independent witnesses to the UFO that night. (Sources: San
Francisco Chronicle, August 16, 1960; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. &
Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in
Perspective, p. 162; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume
I), p. 61; APRO Bulletin, September 1960, p. 1; Mark Rodeghier,
UFOs Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 18; Hynek J Allen
Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 92).

1963 - In St. Gallen, Switzerland at 8:04 p.m. A. F.
Schelling watched a fireball become a dark object after four minutes of
flight, and then a bigger glow a minute later, and finally explode. The
same witness had another sighting (not described in the Project Blue Book
file) on the next day.. (Source: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO
Unknowns).

1963 - At 9:30 p.m. a family and their housekeeper saw an elliptical object on the ground near Molasses Pond, Ellsworth, Maine
for almost an hour. The craft had body lights along its length,
and there were rays that shone upward from each end occasionally.
(Source: Walter Webb case files, case # 38;Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 141).

1963 - A chemist in Honolulu, Hawaii
at 11:30 p.m. saw a round red object pass overhead from the
southwest to the northeast. The UFO "traveled across the sky at
great speed making two sharp turns at the same speed." (Source: Richard
Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 141).

1965 - As he drove away after dropping off his two daughters Mr.
Ryerson noticed two unusual "persons" walking along the side of the road
next to a bean field. His two teenagers, Ellen Grace Ryerson, age 16, and
Laura Jean Ryerson, 13, in Renton, Washington approached these two
very unusual beings, while walking next to the bean field at seven o'clock
in the morning. The little men were grey colored "like stone", had no
hair, and had large bulging eyes. The first “person” was described as like
a gnome and wrinkled. He wore a funny little hat. He was dancing and
jumping around in front of the other being as they approached. He was
making a cackling sound that the girls thought sounded like laughter. The
other being was approximately 5 feet tall. He had a very unusual head. His
face was gray but the back of his head had a bulbous extension with veins
showing through it. It pulsated. On the rest of his cranium there were
large pores and this part of his head was white. His eyes were described
as like a frog’s eyes. In his mouth he had a little pipe, and he was
blowing on it and making a shrill sound. The taller one wore shiny
clothes, like satin. Both beings wore sleveless purple vests over white
coveralls. Ellen feared that they were going to grab her, so she yelled at
her sister to run. The girls fled, and when they looked back after running
50 feet the beings had completely vanished. (Sources: Jerome Clark,
Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1966, p. 10; David F. Webb &
Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1965-32
(A0643), citing Jerome Clark; Leneesa Garouttee, Alternate
Perceptions (electronic version), February 2005).

Renton, Washington Humanoid Encounter - 1965

1965 - David G., age 14, and
his father and sister were sitting in their yard at four o'clock in the
afternoon in Waverly, Iowa when they heard a high-pitched
whining sound and saw an aluminum object 15-20 feet in diameter, looking
like “two saucers glued together,” descend slowly from the sky. It
disappeared behind a hill a third of a mile away, and the young man walked
over to the hill to investigate. When about 150 yards from the site, he
saw a humanoid being 3.5 feet tall, with a baldhead, peeking out from
behind a tree. He did not see the figure leave, but a minute or so later
he saw a “blur” and heard a rush of air. At the landing site, in an old
quarry, he found a 15-20 foot circle of burnt glass, within which were
three indentations of 5” x 12” and an inch deep. The encounter lasted
about a minute and occurred during a minor wave of reports from Iowa and
elsewhere. (Sources: Ralph DeGraw, APRO Bulletin,
January-February 1975, p. 9; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT:
Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1965-33 (A0644), citing Ralph
DeGraw).

Lynn, Massachusetts Landing August 13, 1965

1965 - At 12:55 p.m. EDT two bakers saw a slow moving, red
tinged white globe glide noiselessly over their bakery in Lynn,
Massachusetts. The UFO then descended into an area of some
electrical power line pylons, one mile away. (Source: Raymond E. Fowler,
UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 333).

1967 - At about four o'clock in the afternoon Inacio De Souza,
age 41, and his wife Maria were approaching their home at Santa Maria,
Brazil near the town of Crixas Pilar de Goias, when they saw three
figures "playing about" on the landing strip of the owner of the Fazenda.
The beings were as tall as young children, had no hair and were wearing
skin-tight clothing of a pale yellow color. At the end of the landing
strip was a landed UFO having the shape of an inverted washbasin. De
Souza, carrying a .44 caliber carbine, fired a shot at the nearest being.
Just then a beam of green light came from the UFO and struck De Souza on
the head and shoulders, knocking him unconscious. The three entities
entered the object, which then took off vertically at a high speed with a
sound like buzzing bees. De Souza incurred a circular burned patch six
inches in diameter, and he was also diagnosed with leukemia by a
physician, from which he died less than two months later. (Sources:
APRO Bulletin, March-April 1969, p. 1; Coral E. Lorenzen,
Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 169; David F. Webb & Ted
Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-75,
citing Dr. Olavo T. Fontes, Jader Pereira & F. Carrion; Richard F.
Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 223).

1970 - At 11:50 p.m. a car being driven by a man named Maarup in
Haderslev, Denmark was engulfed by a bluish-white cone of light
from a metallic gray disc. His car's engine, lights, and two-way radio
died. The light was so brilliant it hurt his eyes and felt heat coming
from the UFO. He took three photographs before the object made a rapid
upward departure. (Sources: Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 281;
MUFON UFO Journal, September 1976).

1972 - At 1:00 a.m. in Yauco, Mayaguez Province, Puerto Rico
20 lights emerged from an oval-shaped cloud, and entered a closely
similar cloud nearby. They failed to reappear. A photograph was
taken of the phenomenon. (Sources: Stendek, March 1973; Awareness, October 1977, p. 13).

1972 - An officer reported that a cigar-shaped object
was seen traveling in the sky at 3:00 p.m. near Gatwick Airport,
England. It flew from the northeast to southwest with the rear end
of the object enveloped in smoke. The smoke or mist eventually obscured
the object. After 70 seconds the smoke cleared to reveal the object had
vanished. (Source: Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, October 1972,
p. 29).

1975 - Sgt. Charles L. Moody, age 32, was driving through the desert near
Alamagordo, New Mexico at 1:20 a.m. when he encountered a metallic,
disc-shaped UFO. He remembers a high-pitched sound coming from the object
and that his car wouldn't start. He then experienced a lapse of time or
memory loss of an hour and a half. He later was able to recall an
abduction by two Grey aliens about 4 feet 8 inches tall, with large eyes
and heads, slit mouths, and wearing tight-fitting coveralls. The abduction
experience involved a medical exam on a table, telepathy, and a message.
(Sources: Coral E. Lorenzen & Jim Lorenzen, Abducted!
Confrontations with Beings from Outer Space, p. 38; David F. Webb,
Proceedings of the CUFOS Conference: 1976, p. 267).

1977 - A 2.2 meter ovoid object landed in a field in
Houetteville, Eure department, France at one o'clock in
the morning. Ground traces werefound later during a large scale
investigation. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1978).

1978
- Viewed thru binoculars. A silent metallic cylindrical object with a
turbine wheel at the rear end was viewed through binoculars for two
minutes over Villaverde del Rio, Sevilla province, Spain at 1:00 a.m. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1979).

1982
- At 9:30 p.m. cones maneuvered and joined a large cigar with a row of
lights along the side, over the town of Abram in Greater Manchester, England. There were reported EM effects. There were many witnesses to this event, which lasted for 20 minutes. (Source: Jenny Randles, Science and the UFOs, p. 89).

1986 - At 12:30 a.m. in Syracuse, Ohio
an air traffic controller and two other witnesses observed red, green
and white nocturnal lights flashing in the sky for 45
minutes. The airport radar confirmed that there were numerous
objects hovering and maneuvering in the vicinity. (Source: Bob
Gribble, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, case # 1148).

1986 - At 7:50 p.m. in Indianapolis, Indiana
a silent metallic hamburger-shaped domed disc was seen by three
witnesses from the sixth floor of a hospital. It flew from north to
south at a low altitude. Later, it flew above an airliner,
seemingly evading detection by the occupants of the airliner. When
it passed above the airliner, it tipped up on one edge and reflected
sunlight. It had a pale green haze that was visible along one side. As
a special note, a UFO abduction occurred near this location six weeks
later on September 30, 1986. (Sources: Mark Rodeghier, International UFO Reporter, November 1986, p. 13; Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 97, citing John Timmerman).

1989 - An 84-year-old man in Mansura,
Louisiana went into his backyard at 10:30 a.m. and saw a
small yellow oval or disc-shaped object close by at ground level. He
called a second, female witness, who watched from the back door of the
house. The 3-foot wide object hovered and moved about at ground level for
approximately five minutes, 30 feet away, circled a tree, then flew off
vertically and was quickly gone from sight. It made no sound as it flew,
and left some ground traces on the lawn. (Sources: Hal Price, MUFON Field
Investigations Database, case 890806; Dan Wright, MUFON UFO
Journal, December 1992).

1991 - At two a.m. in Maguayo, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico Mrs.
Camacho encountered two four-foot-tall Grey entities in her garden. They
had large skinny heads and narrow chins. They also apparently had no
noses, no lips, and slit-like mouths. They took leaves from the plant
Monsterosa deliciosa. They mumbled some form of unintelligible gibberish.
The witness was unable to move during her encounter, which lasted about
two minutes. (Source: Jorge Martin, in Timothy Good (editor), Alien
Update, p. 23; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1991, case
#659, citing Timothy Good & Jorge Martin).

1991 - Four men staying at a local guest house near
Victoria, Entre Rios, Argentina were alerted to two
maneuvering lights in the sky at 10 p.m. One was yellow and the other red,
and they first moved up and down, then in a triangular pattern. One of the
lights then descended onto the road near the guesthouse. Two dark
human-like figures emerged from the landed object and appeared to float
above the ground moving around back and forth. Although they were
human-like, their heads were slightly larger than normal. Suddenly the
light illuminating the object turned off, and a white bowl-shaped object
could be discerned. A few of the witnesses were not able to see the
figures completely, and only saw their arms and legs. Later that same
evening a man reported that he had been abducted, and awakened in a nearby
garden as a blue beam was being retracted into a departing UFO. (Sources:
Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1991, case # 1466, citing
Roberto Banchs, Cuadernos De Ufologia, Volume 15, Number 2, 1993;
Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 312).

1992 - On this morning at around 9 a.m. a woman was
sitting at her dining room table in Salem, Oregon facing
the living room with the kitchen to her left, when she caught sight of
something outside her kitchen window. It was a short hairless
greenish-gray figure that walked quickly into her kitchen. It stopped and
stood briefly by a kitchen storage cabinet. She attempted to communicate
with the creature telepathically, but it suddenly vanished. The figure had
an elongated head and what appeared to be large "eyelids" drawn over the
eyes. Her dog did not seem to react to the intruder. Twenty minutes later
when she sat down again at the dining room table a greenish three-fingered
hand touched her wrist quickly from behind her. The touch was very
painful, almost like an "electric shock", and then the alien hand
vanished. Two days later the witness noticed a round red mark on her
wrist. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, case #
1355, citing Linda Moulton Howe, Glimpses of Other Realities,
Volume I).

1994 - From Charron Island in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
a white disc-shaped object "moved in silence between 6,000 and 8,000
meters" altitude at 10:30 p.m. It was seen by two witnesses. (Source;
Frank Ducks, 1994 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 90).

1994 - At 11:00 p.m. several witnesses including police in Salisbury, North Carolina
watched nocturnal lights hover, orbit, and dance in the sky for
two hours. A light in the distance was seen dropping red dots. They
finally scattered in four directions. (Source: UFO Newsclipping Service, October 1994).

1995 - At 12:45 a.m. a starlike object zig-zagged eight times during its descent over Rennes, Ile-Vilaine department, France.
It seemed to enlarge as in descended. A dark mass was perceived at low
altitude, but was lost from view behind some trees. On the same
night there was an occurrence of anomalous radar echoes in the Central European surveillance area. (Sources: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 334; Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 109).

1998 - Several people in Surrey, British
Columbia observed a bright white disc "drop out of the sky" and
hover nearby for about 30 seconds. No sound was heard, and it disappeared
at a high rate of speed. Many telephone reports were received by the RCMP.
(Source: Geoff Dittman, 1998 Canadian UFO Survey, case #71).

2002 - At one a.m. two silvery luminous objects flew
silently over a RV park in Waterville, Nova Scotia,
Canada. At 2:15 a.m. at Cow Bay, Nova Scotia,
Canada a huge triangular-shaped object blocked out stars as it
flew very slowly at 15 km/hour towards the northwest. Its flat side was
forward as it flew, and it was absolutely silent. Electrical disturbances
were also reported. (Source: Geoff Dittman Geoff, 2002 Canadian UFO
Survey, cases # 344 & 345, citing Don Ledger).

2003 - A black boomerang-shaped object passed low and
fast over Napoleonville in southern Louisiana at 7:25
p.m. It made no sound as it flew. The sighting was brief, lasting about
six seconds. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center,
Seattle, August 2002 archived webpage).

2005 - The pilot of an Air France airliner reported
sighting a UFO 10 miles west of Gatwick Airport, Sussex,
England. The object was estimated to be 1-2 metres in
length. It had a yellow color and was cylindrical in shape. It was
definitely not shaped like a balloon. (Source: British Ministry of
Defense, case 2005-071).